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On Monday, 26th of November, the Ball Games Room of Prague Castle hosted 196 finalists of the 5th year of the Logical Olympiad. The competition was traditionally divided into three age categories: A, B, and C. The representatives of all 14 regions registered at the desk, and then headed into the hall, where the competition took place.

It is 26th November, 15:20. The Ball Games Room of Prague Castle falls silent, I am holding a pen and waiting. The Logical Olympiad Finals 2012 is approaching its climax – the winners are being announced. Jan Brada from the 14th Primary School Plzeň, Zábělská, is the winner in Category A. Category B is won by Ondřej Motlíček from the Šumperk Grammar School, and the Category C by Jiří Guth from the Jírovcova Grammar School in České Budějovice.

The day when the official national strike of the Slovak teachers begins. The schools stay closed, teachers rightfully ask not to be on the fringe of the society and to have their salaries increased, children sit at their computers and do not even attempt to hide their pleasure that they do not have to go to school today. But that’s the atmosphere in Slovakia. In the Czech Republic, 200 children from all over the country get up in the morning and have a different goal today. They travel to Prague Castle, expecting adventure, and aiming to win the competition – the Logical Olympiad in the Czech Republic.

A total of 32,190 competitors from 1 660 schools from the entire Czech Republic registered for the fifth year of our Mensa-organised and ever more popular Logical Olympiad. The organising team, headed by Zuzana Poláková, managed the demanding registration of participants and schools, website amendments, co-ordination and organization of the entire competition, and the online nomination round. After that, regional co-ordinators joined the fray, and took the initiative with arranging premises for regional rounds in all 14 regions, looking for sponsors, distributing the assignment forms, lists of children who qualified for the regional rounds, finding volunteers who would help with the regional rounds, and organizing the entire “D Day”, i.e. Friday 2^nd November, 2012. The management of the Central Bohemian regional round was perfectly handled by Markéta Erbsová.